New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed without designation on title page ('Best wishes always! John Matteson'). 2 inch stain to fore edge margin of last 50 pages - does not affect text. Binding tight and square.
x, 497 pp. An.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
xi, 288, [1] pp. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
ix, 289 pp. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xi, 391 pp. In 1910, Crystal Eastman was one of the most conspicuous progressive reformers in America. By the 1920s, her ardent suffragism, insistent anti-militarism, gregarious internationalism, and uncompromising feminism branded her "the most dangerous.....
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First editions. Rebound in half-leather with marbled boards. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown.....
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Inscribed and signed by author with doodle on title page ('for Rhoda! Alison Bechdel'), with a signed handwritten letter on Bechdel's own stationery laid in. Rhoda is Rhoda Levine, the opera director, choreographer, and faculty member at Juilliard.....
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on half-title page ('For Susan, With best wishes, Avis Berman, October 8, 2009'). Minor smudges to fore edge, with minor blemishes to margins of a couple pages.
xvi, 572 pp. Discusses Juliana Force's role.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1895. Hard Cover.
Minor pencil marginalia, binding slightly shaken, spine leans backward slightly.
356, 4 pp. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, photographic frontispiece, black-and-white plates from photos and historical illustrations. A collection of biographies of various influential women throughout history, including.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Lufkin, Raymond. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Hard Cover.
Second edition, enlarged from the 1948 original. Signed by author without inscription on front endpaper. Jacket edges rubbed with 2 inch closed tear and minor loss, back corner of jacket discolored, jacket toned. Binding tight.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Reissue. Hard Cover.
2016 reissue. Minor wear to corners, text block has relaxed away from spine a bit.
xiii, 637 pp. 8vo. This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Light stain on base of rear jacket panel, light smudge to bottom and fore edge of pages, jacket laminate wrinkled along edges.
xiii, 637 pp. 8vo. This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of.....
New York: Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc., 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state, with the 'Six Burly Men' note tipped in explaining the work's initial suppression (in later printings this note was printed directly on the page). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards rubbed with some loss of gilt and.....
New York: Regnery, 2004. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
CD included. Embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
594 pp. A collection of fifty years of personal essays by William F. Buckley, Jr. illuminates his career in the army, his love of sailing.....
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink gift note on half-title page appears to be from someone who frequented the Algonquin ('To Dot from one of the inmates with a very Merry Xmas!') though we cannot decipher the name (it appears to be.....
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1906. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip.
xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original.....
New York / Boston: Brentano's / D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1906. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Dark olive cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions.....
New York: Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
494 pp. The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1932. Hard Cover.
First printing of special edition. Spine faded, light 2 inch stain on front board along spine, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, jacket edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
xii, 389.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine lightly toned, dime-sized spot on front board, 2 inch tear to one page of foreword.
xv, 235 pp. 8vo. Original beige cloth, forest green stamped titles. Includes photographic frontispiece of Beard, and pen and ink sketches.....
Rochester, New York: Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on front endpaper. Top edge foxed, minor loss from jacket corners, jacket spine faded.
viii, 377 pp. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs. "At 92, Henry W. Clune could be forgiven.....
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Corinthian Books, 2001. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on title page ('To Julie, with warmest wishes - Richard N. Cote, March 15, 2002'). Spine a bit faded.
xii, 467 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Born to affluence and opportunity.....
San Francisco: H. Keller & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition - the 1879 San Francisco printing, significantly preceding the Funk & Wagnalls edition of 1886, which is commonly mischaracterized as the first. Boards rubbed and soiled (most of gilt rubbed away), front free endpaper removed, hinges weakening.....
Italy: Konecky & Konecky, 2000. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges very lightly bumped. Pages 101/102 misprinted, obscuring one passage of text.
207, [1] pp. Color and sepia illustrations reproduced from paintings and drawings. "Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance man in the fullest sense of the word yet amazingly close to.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, England: The MIT Press / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine base bruised with associated 1/2 - 1 inch tears along each joint, top corner of front free endpaper torn out. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked
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New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1890. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and a gift note from his wife on front endpapers, boards lightly rubbed.
207 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and fleur-de-lis decoration, engraved frontispiece portrait of Mademoiselle de Corday (also.....